. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . already remarked, of vari-ous odd, grating, shrill, guttural, and sometimes warbling tones,which become at length somewhat agreeable to the ear; andinstances are said to have occurred of their acquiring the powerof articulating several words pretty distinctly. The flesh of this bird is but little esteemed except whenyoung, being dark and tough like that of the Starling; yet insome of the markets of the United States they are at timesexposed for sale. The Red-wing is a common summer visitor to t
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . already remarked, of vari-ous odd, grating, shrill, guttural, and sometimes warbling tones,which become at length somewhat agreeable to the ear; andinstances are said to have occurred of their acquiring the powerof articulating several words pretty distinctly. The flesh of this bird is but little esteemed except whenyoung, being dark and tough like that of the Starling; yet insome of the markets of the United States they are at timesexposed for sale. The Red-wing is a common summer visitor to the Eastern Statesand Canada, breeding as far north as latitude 50°. In the West itranges through the Saskatchewan valley to Great Slave Lake. Itwinters south to Mexico ; but a few individuals have been known tobrave a New England winter. During the winter of 1889-90, amale was seen about the Fresh Pond marshes by several membersof the Nuttall Club of Cambridge. Note. — The Bahaman Red-wing (A. ph(E7nnis bryanti), asmaller, darker race, is found on the Bahama Islands and in south-ern Florida,. YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD. Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus. Char. Male: hfiad, neck, and breast yellow; large patch on wingwhite; other parts black. Female and young : general color blackishbrown; wings without the white spot; throat and breast dull 9 to ii inches. Nest. — Of dried grass, firmly woven and fastened to twigs of a bush orstalks of rushes, in a marsh or swampy meadow. Eggs.—2-6; grayish white, sometimes with a green tint, irregularlymarked with brown; 1,05 X The Yellow-headed Troopial, though long known as aninhabitant of South America, was only recently added to thefauna of the United States by Major Longs expedition. Itwas seen in great numbers near the banks of the River Platte,around the villages of the Pawnees, about the middle of May;and the different sexes were sometimes observed associated inseparate flocks, as the breeding season had not yet pro
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